SwRI is an applied engineering research facility located in San Antonio, Texas, and conveniently adjacent to the Eagle Ford Shale Operations. SwRI has staff expertise in subsurface phenomena (hydrology), vibration analysis and diagnosis (compressors), non-destructive monitoring and testing (pipelines), and many other specialties.

Core Flooding Testing

Surfactant evaluation for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

Fracking fluid, proppant, and gel development and testing

High pressure, high temperature sample testing

Efficiency of extraction

Reservoir flow tests

Reaction Calorimetry Analysis

Measurement of reaction enthalpy changes

Kinetic analyses (rate and end point detection)

Acquisition of hazard analysis data for safety or PSM requirements

Reaction optimization and rate of reaction

Acquire data for industrial process scale-up

Process screening

Wastewater Cleanup

Supercritical water oxidation process development for neutralization of waste water evaporation pond contaminants